Emeritus Professor Leigh Landy presents work at the ΑΚΟΥΣΜΑΤΑ festival in Corfu

On 8 May, MTI Emeritus Professor Leigh Landy presented the latest piece in his radio series, ‘Aplican Términos y Condicciones’ (Terms and Conditions Apply) recomposing dozens of hours of Mexican radio broadcasts at the annual ΑΚΟΥΣΜΑΤΑ festival at the Ionian University of Corfu where he is Visiting Professor. It includes a video translation. He is also working with a group of advanced undergraduate students making a collaborative piece ‘Κέρκυρα Ρέμιξ’ (Corfu Remix) which will be premiered at the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Days in November, also in Corfu.

Festival URL: https://avarts.ionio.gr/festival/2026/en/akoysmata 

Concert URL: https://avarts.ionio.gr/festival/2026/en/events/859

 

Landy invited talk and international jury member in Macau

In mid November, Prof. Landy headed to the Academy of Music at the Macau University of Science and Technology where was asked to offer an invited extended lecture entitled ‘Innovative Music Making: Interesting or engaging? Why not both?’. He also served as international jury member at their Macao International Digital Intelligence Music Competition. 

Landy Peformance and Talk, EMS 2025 Paris

Prof. Landy presented a composition, Qing + Cha  磬 + 镲     Old / New 舊 / 新 (2023) and a talk at the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS) 2025 conference in Paris. The talk returns to a much-cited composition access tool he launched in a 1994 publication, suggesting its expansion based on the further developments, experiences and feedback from the interim thirty years. That talk is entitled ‘The Something to Hold on to Factor 2’. Both reflect the conference interest in cultural and intercultural approaches within the field.

The event took place Nov 19-21 at multiple venues in and near Paris. Landy is also Founding Co-director of EMS, the global subject research association in the field.

Landy Keynote at Bowed Electrons 25 Conference/Festival in Cape Town

Emeritus Professor Leigh Landy presented a keynote talk (not for the first time at this event) at the Bowed Electrons conference/festival hosted by The South African College of Music/University of Cape Town, SAE Creative Media Institute, part of the international School of Audio Engineering and the Media Art unit at the University of the Arts, Karlsruhe (Germany). It took place at the SAE Institute in Cape Town.

Landy presented a work ‘Musical Bow Old/New’ commissioned by the festival last year in the final concert and offer a keynote, alas online, on the same day entitled ‘Making Sonic Creativity Relevant’. The event took place on 28-29 November 2025.

 

Prof. Leigh Landy Performance in Kuala Lumpur

As part of the Spectra concert series, Leigh Landy’s 8-channel composition, ‘E Pluribus Plures’, was performed on 11 November 2024 at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Malaysia. This work, which recomposes traditional music around the globe, is a celebration of cultural diversity and a warning about several non-commercial folk traditions that are under threat of extinction. He was the only non-Asian composer on the programme.

 

Prof. Leigh Landy appointed as Visiting Professor at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

 

As of December 2024, Prof. Leigh Landy has been appointed Visiting Professor at the ERHMEE research centre at the Ionian University in Corfu. ERHMEE has been a partner of the MTI Research Centre for ca. 15 years and this appointment is a celebration of our excellent relationship.

Professor Leigh Landy to offer his second keynote talk at the WOCMAT Conference-Festival in Taiwan

The 20th WOCMAT (Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology) Conference and Taiwan Computer Music Festival has invited Leigh Landy to offer a keynote address (as he did in Taiwan in 2016) and present a recent composition. Mainly attended by musicians and developers from East Asia, this event brings Chinese and Taiwanese specialists together with colleagues from around the globe. During the festival 20-21 December 2024, he will offer a talk entitled ‘Practising what I preach <–> Preaching what I practise’ focusing on how his artistic work and his scholarship both reflect his desire to bring new music to new audiences and participants. The talk focuses on his two books that appeared within the last twelve months as well as his two current series of compositions. His goal is to indicate to conference attendees how important this goal is. He will also be presenting a recent work from one of those two composition series, ‘Qing + Cha 磬 + 镲     Old / New 舊 / 新’ (2023) in concert a work whose sonic material consists solely of sounds from qing (bowls) and cha (Chinese cymbals).